Tony Benn was a long-serving British Labour politician, first elected to parliament in 1950 where he later served as a Cabinet Minister in Labour Governments under Prime Ministers Harold Wilson and James Callaghan. He retired from parliament in 2001, in order (in his own words) "to spend more time involved in politics." He was an outspoken opponent of the war on Iraq, travelling to Bagdad in 2003 to meet Saddam Hussein, for an interview that was subsequently shown on British TV. He was elected the first President of the Stop the War Coalition. He has also regularly toured with a one-man stage show.

Dee, who takes over in the West End's current production of Calendar Girls Nov. 3, was last seen in the West End in Alan Ayckbourn's Woman in Mind at the Vaudeville Theatre, which she first played at Scarborough's Stephen Joseph Theatre in the Round. It was for a previous Ayckbourn play, Comic Potential, that she won the triple "Best Actress" crown in the Olivier, Evening Standard and Critics' Circle Theatre Awards, in 2000, subsequently repeating her role in a different production at Manhattan Theatre Club in New York. She has also appeared extensively at the National Theatre and for the Peter Hall Company, most recently in summer 2009 at Bath Theatre Royal in Bernard Shaw's The Apple Cart.

Eloquent Protest was originally conceived by Caroline and Hazel Roy as a special Remembrance Day event to underpin Caroline's production of Not About Heroes at Trafalgar Studios in 2006. After two sell-out years in the smaller Trafalgar Studios 2, the event moved to the venue's larger Trafalgar Studios 1 in 2008.

In a press statement, Caroline Clegg has commented, "For years artists, writers and poets have raised their voices in eloquent protest against the terrible cost of war. They have spoken out with passion against the warmongers who treat soldiers like cannon fodder and civilian casualties as mere statistics. Seventy years since the end of WWI and we are no closer to finding peaceful resolutions to the conflict. As a theatre director, I seized the opportunity to bring together the artistic eloquent protestors of today."

Tickets are priced £18 with £15 concessions, and free tickets for war veterans. All profits go to the Mark Wright Project. The Project, created by the parents of 27-year-old Corporal Mark Wright (George Cross) who died in Afghanistan, aims to raise £4m to provide aid for servicemen and women recovering from the physical and mental wounds of war.

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